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Monday, 14 June 2021

Are the covid vaccines really doing any good? (Spoiler: yes they are)

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I recently saw it reported that out of all the UK people who have died (so far) from the Indian (delta) covid variant, a third were double-v...
Monday, 19 April 2021

"Is it Miss or Mrs?": Why my marital status is no one's business but my own

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Picture the scene.... A man - say, Mick - walks into a shop and wants to take out a mobile phone contract, or buy a new kitchen, or have som...
Monday, 8 February 2021

How should we share covid vaccines?

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Vaccinations in the UK are going well. Source: Unsplash Covid-19 has had a devastating impact across the world. But now, thanks to the wonde...
Saturday, 23 January 2021

Collective restrictions

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"Right, Lee, if you don't stop this behaviour right now, then the whole class will lose out on playtime.... ok Lee that's it, e...
Thursday, 17 December 2020

Why we shouldn't rush to get back to normal

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Life has changed in 2020. That's stating the obvious, of course. I enjoyed my life in 2019 and previous years a lot more than I've e...
Thursday, 3 December 2020

Are drag queens as offensive as blackface?

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Over the past year or so, some people in the media have apologised for performing in blackface. In this post I'm going to argue that dra...
Tuesday, 3 November 2020

The US election in Venn diagrams

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Today is election day in the US. At times, it seems to dominate the news media more so than the UK election did! I thought it would be fun t...